City Salesmen Barbecue Promises Food Fun and Speech
The City Salesmen association invites members and families to an annual barbecue next Saturday at the Burns club grounds near Soldiers' Home. Expect stew and barbecue, music, dancing, speeches, and a day of fellowship with chauffeurs and guests from jobbing houses. Card-only admission. committee includes Paul Pause and James Davenport among others.
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Atlanta
Burns Club
Soldiers
Decatur
Peachtree Streets
Streamen
Paul & Pause
James Davenport
W. P Ha. J
St. Leunius
James 3
Assey
Congressman Rupley Bill Aims to Cut Out Middlemen
Congress is told by Representative Rupley that a new bill seeks to remove middlemen from the food chain. It urges the Commerce Department to study how commissions raise costs, noting about 300,000 agents and merchants add at least 32,009 yearly each, totaling a vast burden on consumers. The proposal claims elimination of middlemen will lower prices.
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Washington
House
Rupley
Equomerce
United States
Ralph M'Cord Joins E. L. Adams Co in Southern Central Territory
Ralph M'Cord, formerly with Kingan & Co and later with HL Singer and McCord Stewart, now joins E. L. Adams Co. He will cover the Southern and Central routes between Atlanta and Macon, taking over territory previously handled by George F. Gilmore. His home is 112 Ashby Street, Atlanta, formerly Jackson, Georgia. Local readers note his extensive grocery experience and potential to retain old B. K. Adams customers while attracting new ones.
Whiteley Visits Atlanta as Texas Manager
W. M Whiteley, longtime southern manager for the American company, recently visited Atlanta and called on friends Messrs Carlton and Malone of Capital City Tobacco. He handled El Principe de Gales and La Preferencia cigars, reporting strong success in his new Texas territory as manager.
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W. M Whiteley
Texas
Messrs
Carlton and Malone
Capital City Tobacco Company
Whiteley
la Preferencia
Teach Spanish in Our Public Schools
Frank I. Lowenstein urges teaching Spanish in public schools to boost U S export capacity in Latin America. He argues bilingual salesmen could trade directly with South American merchants, giving American manufacturers access to Brazil Argentina Uruguay and Chile amid European turmoil. He links language to competitiveness and foresees wartime effects on migration and industry.
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Latin-America
Canada
Frank I. Lowenstein
Lowenstein
Norris, Inc
United States
Europe
South America
America
Mr. Lowenstein
Brazil
Argentina
Urugua
Chile
West
Friends of Our
Artigan
Excursions Bring Merchants to Atlanta for Trade
R K Tuumbo of John Silvey & Co says recent excursions from Georgia and South Carolina revived merchant trade despite war scare. He notes stronger weekly orders from traveling salesmen and house sales, with expectations to ship more in August.
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Roma
R. K. Tuumbo
John Silvey & Co
South Georgia
South Carolina
Atlanta
Hotel bill failure halts passage in legislature
The failed hotel inspection bill, drawn with hotel men groups, stalled before adjournment. H H Shackelford condemned the session’s inaction calling for renewed effort next legislative session. Lamar Rankin official L. T. Stallings and wife vacationing. C J Jeffries ill at home.
Heavy house sales keep Robinson men busy for past week
JL White of the A M Robinson company says he has never been busier in the house than the past week or ten days as merchants visit Atlanta to buy goods. Joe White, a popular traveling salesman, remains in the city assisting in-house sales amid strong demand for clothing and goods due to war-related needs. Jones, traveling through south Georgia for the same firm, reports unusually high sales and being delayed from touring his territory.
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Georgia Hotel Men's Association
T. A
City Salesman Association
Committee On Hygiene
J H H. D. Shackelford
Grand Hotel
U. C
Mr. Shackelford
JL. White
A. M. Robinson Company
Joe White
Jos
Atlanta
New York Merchants Brace for Cotton Price Slump
In a report drawn from The New York Journal of Commerce merchants in New York and the South gauge the impact of the European war on cotton trade. They fear prices may fall to 8 cents a pound and worry many small buyers cannot pay their bills. Some banks warn of credit tightening as buyers hesitate on southern shipments.
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New York
New York Journal of Commerce
Hosiery Trade Shows Early Signs of Improvement in New York
Reports from New York indicate a defined expectation of upward movement in the hosiery trade with September or October seen as a turning point. Large jobbers report busier activity sourcing from domestic mills as German supplies lag, and some agents foresee price increases on certain lines if demand strengthens. Scarcities in dyestuffs and higher artificial silk yarn costs loom as ongoing cost pressures.
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New York
Germany
Geome
Isle
Hoosier Cabinet men report good conditions in south
Warry Gorny southern representative of Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet, and traveling rep B C Jones, return from a two weeks tour through southern states. They report good conditions despite European troubles and continued optimism among farmers and merchants. Banks Whiteman of John Silvey & Co visits Nashville and has engagements next week before returning to work. I D Heery, price man for Lamar Rankin Drug Co, leaves Monday for a two week vacation.
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Warry Gorny
Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Company
Atlanta
B. C. Jones
Banks Whiteman
John Silvey & Co
Nashville
Tenn
Aome
i D. T._Heery
Lamar-Rankin Drug Company
DeLoach Returns as Manager of Red Seal Shoe Shop
The popular Sam DeLoach returns to Atlanta to manage the Red Seal shoe shop on Peachtree Street after two years in Nashville overseeing the Prod Stewart store. E. E. Gillespie of Lamar Rankin Drug Stores is back at work after a week’s vacation.
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Deloach
RED Seal Shoe Shop
Sam DeLoach
City
Nashville
Stewart
Atlanta
Red Seal
E. E. Gillespie
Lamar-Rankin
HE Jessup
Lemar- Rankin Drug Comimint
J. Finger
Lamar-Rankin Drug Company
Felix W Carlisle Jr Dies in This City
Felix W Carlisle Jr longtime Liggett Myers sales manager dies in this city after sudden illness during a territory tour. Funeral held in Opalika Alabama with many traveling salesmen attending including Georgia escorts and St Louis office rep. Carlisle rose from bottom to sales manager overseeing nineteen southern states and 112 men, praised for fair treatment and leadership. Jessup and Finger from drug firms noted returning from vacations.
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South
Felix W. Carlisle
Liggett & Myers
St Touts
Carlisle
St. Joseph's Infirmary
TW. Sellers
George J. Howard
FR Shumate
Parkes
H E Flemister
W.T Coppedge
W. de Moore
JF. McDermott
RB Cromwell
St Louis
Red Seal Shoes Promotes September Sales Motors South
A call to action urging readers to await the Red Seal salesman and promise of savings in September. Advertisers push for attention in leading Southern newspapers and emphasize ease of selling what people call for while urging solidarity.
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South
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Soldiers’ Home
Ralph M’cord
E. L. Adams CO
McCord
Kingan & Co
EL. Adams Com
Ralph R. Mw’cord
Whitehall Street
Mfg. Co
Eureka
Atco Square
Atlanta Coffee Mills Company
Edgewood
S.P._Richards Co
Central Ave
Georgia
E.L. Adams Company
Atlanta, Ga
Frank Lowenstein
R. K. Rambo
L. T. Stallings
Highlands
N. G
C. ©. Jeffries
Aetas
McCord-Stewart Co
Joseph White
W. S. Jones
Hoosier
Sycamore
Newnan
H. Strickland
Post Office
Hirshberg CO
Nelson ST
J. Regenstein CO
Whitehall ST
Felix W. Carlisle, JR
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Opelika, Ala
Dixie Pickle & Preserving Co
Marietta St
J. K. Orr Shoe CO
RED Seal Shoe Factory
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